Complex Geometric Graffiti

Emerging in the late 1960s, Graffiti was born out of the blank concrete walls of Philadelphia and New York. Those who tagged with their mobile and easily obtained medium of the spray can followed in the footsteps of the movement’s pioneers to densely fill the walls of cities and grabbed their own small share of glory. By the 1980s a variety of graffiti styles began to appear in street art, including Tracy 163’s “wild-style” and later, of course, the geometric patterns of work by Keith Haring. It can be argued that geometric art simplifies the view, since its own origins in the 1920s. But that is where the complexity lies, using either simple or intricate patterns to create a completely new viewing experience. Now change the type of canvas and take work that creates a relationship between negative space and form, and transplant it onto the concrete walls of the cityscape or the back of a skateboard. The ability to affront and then direct the viewer’s eye through geometric patterns is indeed utterly complex. In Artsper’s own collections, artists like Medra and Nadel have managed to take this abstract artistic ability, with Nadel using paint and acrylic markers to play with superposition and repetition, intermixing graffiti and abstract expressionism.

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Complex Geometric Graffiti

A bicyclette

Carnaval à Venise

A table !

A bicyclette!

Que la force soit!

Baby Boum

Asian song

Chatte de ménage (1)

Untitled 25, NY.

Untitled 8 (NY)

Untitled 25 (Hussein Chalayan)

Untitled 3 (Alexander McQueen)

Untitled 71 (Alexander McQueen)

Untitled 31, (Paris). From the series La Notte.

Untitled 27 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 25 (Paris), From the series La Notte.

Untitled 23 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 22 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 21 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 20 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 18 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 17 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 16 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 13 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 12 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 9 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Vinyl 1

Untitled 18 from the series of INtheVISIBLE, 2013

Untitled 29 from the series of INtheVISIBLE, 2019

Untitled 19 from the series of INtheVISIBLE, 2013

Untitled 15 from the series of INtheVISIBLE, 2013

Jouez avec moi !

Untitled 18, NY.

Untitled 14, NY.

Untitled 72 (Givenchy)

Untitled 9. Costume National

Untitled 73. Pucci.

Untitled 70, Calvin Klein Fashion Show

Untitled 3. Alexander McQueen Fashion Show

Untitled 32 (Paris)

Untitled 30 (Paris), From the series La Notte.

Untitled 29 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 28 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 26 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 24 (Paris), From the series La Notte.

Untitled 19 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 15 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 11 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 10 (Paris), From the series La Notte.

Untitled 8 (Paris), From the series La Notte.

Untitled 7 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 5. (Paris). From the series La Notte.

Untitled 4 (Paris), From the series La Notte.

Untitled 3 (Paris), From the series La Notte

Untitled 2 (Paris), From the series La Notte.

Untitled 1 (Paris), From the series La Notte.

Untitled 1

Untitled 14 from the series of INtheVISIBLE

Untitled 12 from the series of INtheVISIBLE

Untitled 6 from the series of INtheVISIBLE

Untitled 5 from the series of INtheVISIBLE

Untitled 24 from the series of INtheVISIBLE

Untitled 33 from the series of INtheVISIBLE

Untitled 30 from the series of INtheVISIBLE

Ma jungle

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